Section 8. Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients, 31-8-1 through 31-8-306.
ARTICLE 5
BILL OF RIGHTS FOR RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
31-8-112. Freedom from duty to perform services for facility; right to rise and retire at times of resident's choice; tobacco and alcoholic beverages; freedom to enter and leave facility.
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Each resident shall be free from a duty to perform services for the facility.
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Each resident shall be permitted to rise and retire at times of his choice, if the resident does not interfere with the rights of others.
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Unless contradictory to written admission policies of which the resident, guardian, or representative is informed prior to admission, each resident shall be permitted to use tobacco and to consume alcoholic beverages, subject to the facility's policies and safety rules and applicable state law, if the resident does not interfere with the rights of others.
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Each resident shall be free to enter and leave the facility as the resident chooses.
(Code 1933, § 88-1908B, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 149, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
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Am. Jur. 2d, Hospitals and Asylums,
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